Word: embargos
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...bane of Wall Street is uncertainty, and the Middle East these days is certainly loaded with that. The worst-case scenario - an all-out war - could be devastating to the oil-dependent global economy, whether from an embargo or merely a disruption of supply. Merely by worrying about this investors are putting a premium on energy prices that could make their other nightmare - a weakling recovery, stunted by inflation and starved for demand - come true in the meantime...
...Martin, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Provost Stephen E. Hyman helped circulate a mass petition signed by 15,000 scientists who agreed to publish their work only in journals that would grant free online access to their archives after a six-month embargo...
...People as readers can trust that they are seeing some of the best work in the world,” said Ellis Rubinstein, editor of the prestigious non-profit Science magazine, which has a year-long embargo on free access...
...that it's a bad idea - from the OPEC embargo to Iran to the Gulf War to the perenially-in-crisis Middle East, energy-related economic interests has dictated U.S. involvement in plenty of unwanted scrapes, and America's moral legitimacy in the Muslim world has eroded accordingly. The U.S.' oil-fueled alliance with Saudi Arabia was what turned bin Laden against America in the first place; the arguable legitimacy of his beef certainly hasn't damaged his following...
...food--which aides insist is a one-time emergency move--will boost the growing influence of Cuba's economic liberalizers. And the fact that a U.S. commercial shipment is actually headed for Havana--a move hard-line Cuban-American leaders have bitterly fought--further erodes the embargo's flagging support...